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Traction Alopecia Treatment

What is Traction Alopecia?
Traction Alopecia, as its name indicates, refers to the form of alopecia, which is occurred due to excessive pulling (traction). When the pulling or tension along with styling, twisting gets applied in a continuous process, hair fall becomes gradual and hence, people may have to experience thinning of hair and even baldness.

Causes of Traction Alopecia:
As mentioned before, the recession of hairline is occurred due to constant traction. Some significant factors, responsible for this problem, are listed below:

Wearing tight ponytails, pigtails, cornrows or braids for prolonged time

Using of tight hairpieces, fabric headbands, deadlocks, hair clips on a regular basis

These are the most vital reasons behind a Traction Alopecia, which is behavioral to some extent.

Symptoms:

Some noted symptoms should be observed to figure out that issue. These signs include:

Redness

Itching

Folliculitis

Gradual thinning of hair (onset of balding)

Scaling

Short and broken hairs (vellus hairs)

Inflammation (mild)

Basically, this type of alopecia affects the frontal part of the scalp and it may be realized after witnessing receding hair line.

Treatments of Traction Alopecia:

The first and foremost thing that one can do is to go for proper hair style and never opt for repetition. Repeated styling can slacken the hairs. So, this is better to change hair style and go for loosen ones. Avoidance of chemical relaxers and rollers would be best indeed. But, there are some other ways out to treat Traction Alopecia with complete efficacy. These are as follows: